toss up

toss up

DRUG SLANG

Regional slang for a woman who trades sex for crack or for money to buy crack

MEDICAL ETHICS

A medical decision in which the difference between the long term outcomes from following one strategy–e.g., screening for a disease and treating it, or another–not screening for the disease (and not treating it) is negligible and the patient’s doctor is faced with a heads-you-win, tails-you-lose decision, popularly termed a “tossup”